(This was originally written for my games blog, but I’ve decided to stick it here) I seem to be falling into this ghastly pattern of writing longer articles at higher frequencies – no wonder I was going to burn out sometime. That time is actually not now. No. No. I’m actually covering my ass quite well, [...]

Twitter as Distillation of Validation of Cultural Membership Groups Here’s some musings on Twitter that I dug out of a canned post of mine. I should probably flesh it out into something more, but it gets the main message across; “Twitter, is the fertile soil to plant, grow, share and trade cultural norms – the medium [...]

Cultural stuff, that’s what I’m meant to be talking about! Umm..I’m always pondering over new cultural stuff each day, I think. Recently here are the ideas clouding my mind; The Chinese Perception of Friend This one has really resonated with me recently, there have been two situations that have made this stick in the ceiling of my [...]

Wipeout certainly didn’t aid in clearing my head. I’ve reached Breakdown which is the final component in HD’s octagon structured system of race events. The intensity has come in for the crunch again, all races in this section are Phantom; the highest racing speed in the game. I originally thought that the pod combat would [...]

Again I’ve been thinking about the future, my future, where it lies and what I plan to make of it. And again, everything seems so damn uncertain, even more so when you throw China into the equation, and China is an important part of the equation. I like being comfortable with where I’m heading but [...]

Something that I didn’t really think about, even up to the day I left Shanghai was how much I would miss the place. Just like going there in the first place, coming back felt right. It felt like the thing I needed to do; I’d done my time and now I can go back and [...]

It’s been long enough so I might as well attempt to start talking about myself again. I must admit, I make a good topic of discussion, do I not? Obviously not, but as I mentioned somewhere on here before; there are plenty of reasons for me to blog for myself, which is why the time [...]

While in China actually, I managed to whip up a new design for this blog. The current one is great, but a little out of date and takes up too much room. I really just want to condense this all down before I properly get back into writing here. Unfortunately I don’t think that’ll  happen [...]

10th Feburary 2009 Today I wanted to talk about one of my recent habbits that I’ve started to form since I got home. I find that I go to bed later and wake up later in the day. This is fine since I never really have any obligations the next day. I’ve slipped into this habbit [...]

5th Feburary 2009 Three weeks after my homecoming I’ve decided to re-launch this blog into the stratosphere and umm yes a new design will be coming. So there’s a pinch of promise for you. I mention the three weeks specifically because I was originally planning on booting this baby back up as soon as I got back [...]

[Will be updating this post until I fill in all the gaps, just wanted to get something up now, incase it all gets postphoned] Been trying to write up a post for a month now and constantly find myself with something unfinished and not worthy updating, not so cool. As such, I’m just going to do [...]

Alright, as expected there isn’t much new to report. My classes have improved significantly this week as I have managed to correct some of my speaking problems. I still struggling along in this regard but I am getting better, slowly. I’ve also got to know one of my classmates (French of Chinese descent) a little better, [...]

I’ve been slacking off with keeping this up to date but it’s not too important since routine is starting to form and there is less to talk about. Saturday On Saturday I woke up at 9:35am and realized that Hanxue was meant to be here 5 minutes ago, but more importantly I needed to get ready! So [...]

21st September 2008 Thursday Thursday morning I woke up at 7:45am assuming that it’d give me enough time to get to school. Auntie (the landlady; from here on I call her Auntie in Chinese) was up and already doing stuff. I’d actually woke up a few times before that at 6:30am and then 7:15am since there [...]

20th September 2008 With the room booked, friends made and business sorted it was time to bust-a-move. Tuesday Even though I had the 4hr marathon of morning classes ahead of me, all I could think about was getting away from Lao Bao and the Old Guest House. It’s like two sides of the tunnel. On one side [...]

19th September 2008 Been a lot of exciting changes in the past week, I’ve made some new friends and moved house. Let’s go. Saturday As I was saying last time, I was planning on calling around for accomodation on Saturday. I had to return to the internet cafe first to check the dates-of-posting for the 5 apartments. [...]

School’s started so here’s the run down of the past week. On Monday morning I woke up at 6:30am and got out of bed when my phone alarm chimmed in at 7am. Have been doing this everyday since. It gives me enough time to shower, eat breakfast and get ready for the day. I then get [...]

Just posting that I have updated my flickr account with 17 new photos of the area where I live. Photostream

Hello everyone bothered enough to read through my recent far-flung account of life in China. I have another big hit of writing from the last week to post up. From here on out I needn’t offer much backstory so the articles should be easier to swallow. I will also be taking pictures next week, once [...]

A few months ago, I was practicing langage with one of my good Chinese friends. Quite often, every Thursday we’d find ourselves drilling into the misunderstandings that seperate us. We’d been doing this a lot for not quite the past year or so, with each of us kicking things off with our own observations of [...]